Russia Bombs Power Plants and Ukraine Targets Refineries in Dueling Attacks

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As Russian missiles streaked done the skies supra Ukraine earlier dawn connected Saturday, erstwhile again targeting the nation’s already battered vigor grid successful a wide and analyzable bombardment, Ukrainian drones were flying successful the different direction, taking purpose astatine captious lipid and state refineries and different targets wrong Russia.

The Ukrainian Air Force said its aerial defence teams had intercepted 21 of the 34 Russian cruise and ballistic missiles fired from land, aerial and sea-based systems, but the onslaught caused extended harm to 4 thermal powerfulness plants and different captious parts of the powerfulness grid successful 3 regions.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it had changeable down 66 Ukrainian drones implicit the Krasnodar region, which is conscionable crossed the Kerch Strait successful confederate Russia, eastbound of the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

Veniamin Kondratyev, the caput of the determination government, said the Ukrainians drones had targeted 2 lipid refineries, a bitumen plant, and a subject airfield successful Kuban.

The Security Service of Ukraine, known arsenic the S.B.U., said the Ukrainian subject cognition had targeted the Kushchevsk airfield and the Ilsky and Slavyansk lipid refineries. The airfield housed “dozens of subject aircraft, radars and physics warfare devices,” the bureau said successful a statement, adding, “The S.B.U. continues to efficaciously people subject and infrastructural facilities down force lines, reducing Russia’s imaginable for waging war.”

The Kremlin tightly controls accusation astir Ukrainian attacks, often making it hard to measure their impact, and it was unclear however overmuch harm the drone strikes caused.